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Sometimes I want to leave to enjoy the value of the dollar more but I fear I'll be left missing a lot compared to here.
Exactly the way we have felt on several occasions. We too have never LIVED (meaning for more than a couple of months at the very most) anywhere else although we both traveled extensively in our 20s, 30s, and early 40s. So it's not like we've never been out of the tri-state area. We also have visited friends who have moved to other parts of the country and got some pretty thorough tours of their areas as well ..... which always came up short in enough ways to convince us that we would regret putting the value of our dollars above everything else we love about LI if we ever did move.
We hate it in the Winter, then love it again in the Summer.
But I have so many options on restaurants, entertainment, nature, culture, it's hard to beat, even though I agree with rocafeller on the taxes and congestion.
Perfect summary for me. Long Island is cursed becasue it is next to New York City and too many people want to live here. To think the island could have been a much larger Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard if it was further offshore. On the other hand most of us would not be living here to enjoy it!
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Originally Posted by omigawd
Everything on LI is overpriced and you just don't get your money's worth for anything.
I don't like the fact that you have to drive everywhere for any little thing.
The schools aren't that great.
There aren't many opportunities available.
Oh, and yes, I am saving to get out of here. It's going to take a while, but as soon as I can, I'm gone.
I cannot speak for you and I hope where ever you go you are happy. But I have been reading here on CD and talking to relatives and friends who left Long Island. And very often there is something they miss about living on the Island once they left.
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I love Long Island, I wouldn't want to leave (well, at least until retirement). I've traveled all over the place, and notice that many areas don't offer what LI does. My fiance and I were going to move to Las Vegas, but didn't because teacher salaries are low compared to the cost of living there. We do much better financially on Long Island. Anyway, in a way I'm glad it works out that way, because I told him I think I would miss Long Island too much. I'm here in Queens now and I miss Long Island a lot even being here. We're closing on a house in Levittown in about a month, so I'm really excited I'll be back soon
I've looked in other areas and I would consider leaving if my wife ever lost her job..if I lost mine I'd suck it up and do what I have to do. I like some aspects of LI, but those who say it has things other places don't...what? More Italian people and pizza?
It's a typical suburb, and an old suburb at that. Yes, being a suburb of NYC is better than being a suburb of Raleigh NC or Richmond VA or bublerock Minnesota..but is it worth the exorbinant cost? Especially people who never go into NYC and spend most of the time in their local town or in their house, it doesn't make much sense to be spending twice as much on a mortgage and 4 times as much on taxes as other places to live virtually the exact same lifestyle. What, the pizza is better?
If my wife didn't have a tenured teacher position, we'd be out of here.
Everything on LI is overpriced and you just don't get your money's worth for anything.
I don't like the fact that you have to drive everywhere for any little thing.
The schools aren't that great.
There aren't many opportunities available.
Oh, and yes, I am saving to get out of here. It's going to take a while, but as soon as I can, I'm gone.
See, some of these criticisms just don't make that much sense to me. Complaining about driving AND cost? Everywhere that people are moving to that's cheap is worse when it comes to driving and sprawl. The places that offer convenience are generally cities and expensive.
Schools? Again, other places with good schools but they aren't cheap. NoVA is cheaper than LI, but it still isn't cheap cheap. And if you think LI schools are "not that great" your eyes will really be opened when you go somewhere they actually suck. Not many opportunities? In what?
None of the answers worked for me. I don't want to move, but in the current economic/job climate, we may not have a choice.
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It's a typical suburb, and an old suburb at that. quote]
And that's exactly it.... it's a typical suburb and has what all suburbs have. Nothing unique... nothing special (except the cost, of course).
And please, nobody mention "the beaches" and "it's close to NYC" --- that old battle cry is sooooo tired.
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